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This week's re-election of the European Parliament will have been a futile exercise unless the newly elected can find a role for themselves; the best bet will be to engineer the intergovernmental conference planned for 1996.
A mathematical model of the cell cycle, of great interest in itself, may be a first step towards the much more ambitious models people will be building in the decades ahead.
The search for genetic factors that may predispose people to various allergies takes a promising turn with the publication of some incriminating evidence against the IgE receptor.
